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Wikislicing project gets real – introducing InfoSlicer as a Sugar Activity

Wikislicing project gets real – introducing InfoSlicer as a Sugar Activity

A photo of old school remixing – printing out Wikipedia articles and recombining them. 🙂 This was a fun learning exercise as part of an IBM Extreme Blue student project creating a Sugar Activity called InfoSlicer. Instead of using scissors, you can now slice information by downloading Wikipedia articles, editing and remixing them, and reading […]

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BookSprint for Floss Manuals writing for the XO and Sugar

BookSprint for Floss Manuals writing for the XO and Sugar

I’ve been busy lately working on plans for a Floss Manuals BookSprint. A BookSprint is a week-long concentrated effort of technical writers getting together to create a manual for free, libre open source software products. BookSprints are like a workshop where writers come together to learn how to write good user documentation. BookSprints are also […]

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Audience considerations – writing technical doc for kids, parents, and teachers for One Laptop Per Child

Audience considerations – writing technical doc for kids, parents, and teachers for One Laptop Per Child

I’ve recently (read:last week) learned that there is active recruiting going on for end-user documentation for One Laptop Per Child. The OLPC project, as it is also known as, is Nicholas Negroponte’s education project that hoped to build a US$100 laptop and take it to developing countries. It turns out, the product they plan to […]